Zur Rolle der kontrastiven Semantik in interkultureller Kommunikation [PDF]
, 2006 The present paper contains results derived from a number o f experiments on word associations done with a total of 102 German-speaking and French Canadian informants. The study included 9 adjectives, 11 concrete nouns and 10 abstract nouns but focussed
Roche, Jörg, Roussy-Parent, Mélody
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012 There is much empirical evidence that words’ relative imageability and body-object interaction (BOI) facilitate lexical processing for concrete nouns (e.g., Bennett, Burnett, Siakaluk, & Pexman, 2011).
P. Ian Newcombe +3 more
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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
Bańko +15 more
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Children’s preference for HAS and LOCATED relations: A word learning bias for noun–noun compounds [PDF]
, 2010 The present study investigates children’s bias when interpreting novel noun–noun compounds (e.g. kig donka) that refer to combinations of novel objects (kig and donka).
ANDREA KROTT +13 more
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Eléments pour une typologie des emplois du nom défini marqué et du nom nu en créole haïtien
Études Créoles, 2019 This paper presents a corpus study for definite NPs in haitian creole. It aims at defining criteria for choosing between bare nouns and marked nouns. We show that well-known parameters as familiarity, previous mentions are important, but we add semantic ...
Hélène Manuélian
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Stilistic And Syntactic Variation Of German Prepositions
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 This work is devoted to the stylistic and syntactic variation of prepositions per and via in the publicistic style of modern German language. The similarity of German prepositions with the units of significant vocabulary in the aspect of variation is ...
Elvira L. Shubina
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The semantics of nouns derived from gradable adjectives [PDF]
, 2003 What semantics should we attribute to nouns like "wisdom" and "generosity", which are derived from gradable adjectives? We show that, from a morphosyntactic standpoint, these nouns are mass nouns.
Nicolas, David
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Word reading and translation in bilinguals: the impact of formal and informal translation expertise [PDF]
, 2014 Studies on bilingual word reading and translation have examined the effects of lexical variables (e.g., concreteness, cognate status) by comparing groups of non-translators with varying levels of L2 proficiency. However, little attention has been paid to
Chadha, Sumeer +7 more
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Experiential, Distributional and Dependency-based Word Embeddings have Complementary Roles in Decoding Brain Activity [PDF]
, 2017 We evaluate 8 different word embedding models on their usefulness for predicting the neural activation patterns associated with concrete nouns. The models we consider include an experiential model, based on crowd-sourced association data, several popular
Abnar, Samira +3 more
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Do Mass Nouns Constitute a Semantically Uniform Class?
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 Research on mass nouns has focused on concrete terms. So, are there semantic properties shared by all mass terms? We first consider concrete nouns like milk and furniture.
Nicolas, David
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